Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Austrian Priests Initiative Update . . .

Thanks to "Pray Tell" blog for an update on the Austrian Priests Initiave. . .

"A survey on the “Appeal to Disobedience” (Pray Tell reported here) gives explosive results: more than 70% of Austrian priests support, at least in part, the demands of the “Pastors’ Initiative.”
Two-thirds of the priests in Austria see a “dangerous stalling out of reform” in the Catholic Church and a “dramatic gulf” between the Church and modern culture. More than 70 percent of them have a fundamentally positive view of the priests’ initiative for disobedience initiated by Fr. Helmut Schüller and see it as a stimulus for necessary reform. This is the main outcome of a recent study of over 500 priests in Austria."